Relate Theater to Your Passions/Hobbies

Dance

     I have talked about dancing in quite a few discussion posts explaining how much i absolutely love it. I feel as if dance and theater go hand in hand. Both are putting on a performance in front of an audience. And according to Peter Brook:

"All that is needed for theater to take place is an actor who walks across an empty space while someone is watching"

     While dancing, a person must completely change their thought process and just move to the music without thinking about it. If you think about it, you mess up. It comes naturally, just like im sure it comes naturally to a lot of actors and actresses. Its putting on a persona, or a mask, because you become a character in a story and the story is not over until the dance piece is over.
     The different types of dance relate to different moods an actor or actress would express on stage during different scenes. For example, Ballet might be related to a peaceful mood while Hip Hop might be happy and Krumping might be angry. We took notes in class on the impulse to perform and we learned that the way we survive, we adapt to changes in our circumstances by making adjustments in out behavior. Just like dance, by adjusting the type of dance style, you create a different vibe that the audience feels.
     Dancing is just like telling a story, or acting in a play, just instead of using words we use body movements. Just by looking at interpretive dancing, it may be weird to watch but those people are dancing to tell a story in a creative way.
     The different styles of dancing would basically be considered the different genres of theater. From drama, to comedy, to tragedy. All of those genres have a correlating dance style. If anybody has seen different performances of dance than they would be able to understand the feelings that you get just by watching.

 

This is a video if a crew called Street Kingdom, they are a Krumping crew and i hope that by watching this you can see how their body movements and facial expressions make you feel as if they are expressing anger. I apologize for the length of the video (you can skip to 1:22 if you don't feel like watching the beginning!)

This is an example of how Ballet is more of a peaceful dance style. It is easy to see how much of a difference Ballet makes you feel than how Krumping makes you feel.

     And finally my last example....

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This is a crew called Jabbawokeez, they are a b-boy Hip Hop dancing crew. By watching them perform it gives you a happiness vibe that radiates off of them. This is the reason i love dance.